what i like about sonic youth tunings is they often tune strings that are next to each other to the same note (sometimes as many as 4 strings). This gives a really nice chiming quality when you play them together.

yeah my sleeping pattern has gone waaaaaaaay out recently. Hopefully i'll wake up about 1 tomorrow...got stuff to sort out. Wednesday i have to be up at 8am though. Argh.

anything more than that then it'll just get stressful as you say. I'm getting another guitar in april though (a Gibson Les Paul no less...though just to "borrow") so i might find an odd tuning that i like with my jazzmaster and keep the les paul in standard.

i've been playing in G6 recently because i found a video on youtube of the twin peaks theme played on guitar and it sounded beautiful, so i've been trying to learn the tab.